The FreeBSD project has announced the arrival of the first release candidate (RC1) for version 9.0 of its FreeBSD operating system. The developers say that 9.0 RC1 was delayed due to a bug that the team encountered during the initial testing of the images, as well as problems related to FreeBSD-Update.

Aimed at testers, developers and early adopters, the Release Engineering Team asks users to test the new FreeBSD installer by doing fresh installations on test systems. FreeBSD 9.0 includes a number of infrastructure enhancements, such as a new Clang/LLVM based compilation system. Other changes include updates to ZFS, support for over 32 CPUs and USB 3.0, and updates to ZFS. Initial NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support has also been added. More details can be found in Ivan Voras' "What's cooking for FreeBSD 9".

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